The Rough Guide: Native American Music

Native American music is remarkably disparate and varied with tribal backgrounds and regional and climatic distinctions augmenting the differences brought about in all of us by personal experience, taste and character. In this collision of sounds and styles however, a new impetus is emerging. Native Americans are reaffirming the music they have inherited. Native American creativity not only perseveres but thrives.

Artists include: Rita Coolidge, Sharon Burch, the Blackstone Singers, Robert Tree Cody, Bill Miller, The Garcia Brothers and Chester Mahooty